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Night & Day
Home of the Rave?
You Tell Us
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 29, 2009
As long as human beings have mouths, no secret is safe. Think of all the things you know that you really shouldn't. In high school, you knew which boys were uncircumcised. In...
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Rites of Fashion
Don’t be a victim. Check out Tiffe’s new duds.
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 22, 2009
You hate fashion. However, as you pull on your tube socks and tuck your Far Side T-shirt into your leather-belted khaki shorts, you are, believe it or not, making one helluva...
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Resolution Guide
I Gave Up My Favorite Bar
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 22, 2009
The most degrading moment in my life was when a peanut bounced off my head in a bar. It led to the only resolution I can remember actually sticking to. Teakwoods was a great...
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Let There Be Light
Artist can finally plug in his ginormous radiant sculpture
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 15, 2009
Next time you start whining about our sunny skies, stop. Just stop. You know damn well that if the clouds roll in for more than a day, you, along with everyone else in the...
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Purl Jam
Bestselling author pens another one for the cat ladies
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 15, 2009
We've all had moments when we grasp onto the most pathetic things in life to get us through a tough time. For example, you know you’re scraping the bottom when you find...
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The Whoring Twenties
Return of the slutty and devious Roxie Hart
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 15, 2009
The 1920s seem glamorous to 14-year-old girls lacking in American history. Case in point, young gals (including us, back in the day) who whore it up for Halloween, complete...
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Art
Michael Dixon’s “Sambo Scratches His Navel and Watches His Crazy Sister” at West Valley Art Museum Grapples with What It Means to Belong
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 8, 2009
Have you ever felt you truly belonged anywhere? Since you were in diapers, you've probably experienced a constant mental negotiation to determine a sense of belonging to...
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Thin Line Between Love and Skate
Exorcise your hot-or-not days at Skateland
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 1, 2009
If you were a child of the ’80s, did you have hot-or-not birthday parties? If your Lee Press On Nails-sporting mom invited five of your friends over to the house, served...
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Working Stiffed
Poor schlubs have their day at Bruno Mali's
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 1, 2009
Most of us daytime working stiffs get our clubbing and drinking done on Friday and Saturday nights, but what about all those poor schlubs who serve us food and booze on our...
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Stimulus Package
Hillz Thrillz par-tay scintillates the senses
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 25, 2008
During a typical workday, you write 50 e-mails, upload photos to Facebook, and text-message about weekend plans, all while downloading music. Then, at home, you blog on...
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Night & Day
Give Swank a Chance
Don’t expect bedazzled dancing chubby girls at CeZar
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 18, 2008
"Swank" is one of those smarmy words like "posh" or "smooth" or, well, "smarmy." Originating from the German word "sway" and the Dutch word "supple," it aspires to have the...
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Night & Day
Skyspace is the Limit
Get an instant massage for your soul at SMoCA
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 18, 2008
Here at New Times, we've covered the ever-living shit out of artist James Turrell's skyspace viewing chamber Knight Rise at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Don't...
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No-Brainer
Save a geek. Shop Conspire.
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 18, 2008
Think of all those scientists who wear tube socks, own the complete Babylon 5 series on DVD, and scream out the Pythagorean theorem when they bust their load. We’re afraid...
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Food for Thought
Meet the tamale, the essence of universal good
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 11, 2008
Attention all philosophers: Universal good does, indeed, exist in this world. We can now move on as a society, anchored by this one purity. What could the universal good be?...
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Art
“Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting” at SMoCA Manifests in the Form of Lead Teddy Bears and Car Wreckage
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 11, 2008
When it comes to constructing things, I'm not the most capable person. I rely heavily on safety pins rather than sewing machines. I seem to believe that a nail into drywall can...
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Art
“Fill in the Groove: Vinyl Art Show” at Hoodlums Transforms Ear Candy to Eye Candy
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 11, 2008
You can't walk across a college campus today without hearing the word "interdisciplinary." So it only makes sense that Hoodlums, an indie music store with roots at Arizona...
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A Touch of Classy
Beat the uglies at Lyte Lounge
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 4, 2008
You’re raped by a screaming alarm every weekday morning. Then you rush around in the "10 minutes late" zone, only to fly into work in an ill-fitting outfit, greasy hair in...
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Lady Sings the Booze
This deal will only funk you up once a month
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 4, 2008
When there's a weekly night at your favorite bar, it's tough to avoid. But one weekday weekly leads to another and another and before you know it, you've got a mad case of the...
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The Cult of Gil
It’s like a religious experience. Seriously.
By Lilia Menconi
Published: November 27, 2008
Five years ago, Abelardo Gil decided to change lives for the better one show at a time with music that’s part electronic, part soul, part motivational speaking, and mostly...
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Dance Dance Revolution
Forget Scottsdale. Head to DoPho if you wanna shake it.
By Lilia Menconi
Published: November 20, 2008
Need to dance? You can head to Scottsdale, but a Scottsdale night usually means nonstop proof of your mediocre attractiveness. If you need to feel you have a chance of...
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